Baking bread with her two children, adding sea moss gel to their porridge or massaging their hair with plant-based masks, Lauryn Goodman seems to have found her niche as an Earth mother on Instagram.
Sharing advice with thousands of followers, it is her latest reinvention after attempts to settle down at home with her former lover, Manchester City and England defender Kyle Walker, failed.
It’s not that Lauryn, 33, hasn’t done her best. Today marks exactly one year since he sent that explosive text message to Kyle’s then-pregnant wife, Annie Kilner, 31, informing her that her husband was the father of not only their son, but also their young daughter.
‘Hi, I’m Lauryn. I just wanted to quickly tell you that Kyle is the father of our daughter. He’s been having a relationship with all of us, including the baby, and I have everything to prove it.
Needless to say, it ruined the Walker/Kilner family’s Christmas, blew up their lives, and sparked the biggest off-court scandal of 2024, if not the decade.
Annie kicked Kyle, 34, out of her £4million mansion in Cheshire, and as he licked his wounds in a nearby flat, Lauryn could perhaps be forgiven for thinking she had a chance at starting a proper life with the footballer and his two sons, Kairo. Kinara, five years old and one year old.
It was not like that, and an annus horribilis ensued for everyone.
For Annie, who gave birth to her fourth child in April, the year has been one of separation and divorce with only temporary signs of togetherness: at this summer’s European Championship and, more recently, at Christmas, when Annie welcomed Kyle back to the family home. for the sake of their children, Roman, 11, Riaan, seven, Reign, five, and Rezon, ten months.
Lauryn Goodman refuses to quietly take a back seat to enjoy life with her young children
Annie Kilner served divorce papers on Kyle Walker earlier this year
And despite all her hopes, Lauryn is no better either. However, the fame-hungry mother of two still refuses to quietly take a back seat to enjoy life with her young children. “Lauryn has no intention of going anywhere,” says a source close to her. ‘She’s all over Instagram insisting she’s the perfect Earth mother. In fact, she recently hired a new agent to help her get work.
‘What she really wants is to appear on a reality TV show. She has already tasked former glamor model Nicola McLean with the task of putting her on Celebrity Big Brother this year (she was a former contestant on the show).
“She always says that she doesn’t want her children to be forgotten, but given her determination to be on television, one wonders if she is the one who is desperate for the spotlight, fame and, frankly, always being connected to they”. Kyle. Many women would simply enjoy life and riches with their children.’
In fact, that’s something I begged Lauryn to do last summer. Ahead of her day at London Family Court, where she would face Kyle over child support issues, I suggested she accept a life without the footballer.
She simply said she couldn’t and days later hired a new publicist, previously PR for her close friend Rebekah Vardy.
All of which makes one wonder: What has really been accomplished by this unedifying saga that, sadly, centers on two innocent young people?
Her friends tell me that Annie has really “struggled” and that the fiasco “has taken a toll on her health.”
Two months ago she served Kyle with divorce papers, although it is not yet known if they will go ahead with the separation.
Walker with Annie Kilner and their children
The text that triggered Kyle Walker’s marriage to Annie
Annie’s anguish is not surprising. In addition to learning that her husband had cheated on her for the second time, a court battle in July over child support once again brought to light the details of the flirtations and their consequences.
“She could have accepted a very generous financial offer from Kyle for the children,” said a friend, referring to Lauryn’s quest for Kyle to obtain greater funds on top of the £150,000 a year he already provides, as well as a car. 51,000 pounds. subsidy every three years and the right to live in the Sussex house he bought outright.
Lauryn wanted £60,000 more to pay for air conditioning and an astroturf football pitch for her daughter Kinara, as Lauryn wants her to be a Lioness.
Lauryn insisted that all she wanted was for her two children to have the same thing as Annie’s four children.
“Although he is no angel, when it came to taking care of Kairo and Kinara financially, he did the right thing,” said a friend of the footballer. “His opinion and that of those around him was that he could not be criticized.”
The judge agreed, saying he found Walker to be “reasonable” and dismissed Lauryn’s claims.
Unable to get her way, Lauryn told me she thought the judge was “dazzled” by Kyle, who had just reached the Euro final, narrowly losing to Spain.
In addition to losing his court battle, significant fame still eludes him. After several attempts at appearing on reality TV shows, including Celebrity Big Brother, I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here and others, her appearance this autumn on E4’s Celebs Go Dating failed to garner the kind of headlines she had hoped for.
His attempt to get his own TV show, which would have screened on ITV, has also fallen by the wayside.
He began filming this summer amid controversy over his sister Chloe’s decision to ban him from attending her wedding in Portugal. But it has been shelved amid accusations of his difficult behavior and demands, including an “appearance fee” for Kairo that the production company deemed “absolutely ridiculous.”
“She could have made a nice sum on that show, but it wasn’t enough for Lauryn,” said a source close to the project.
And so the indefatigable Lauryn carries on. He has launched a podcast, broadcast from the £2.5million home paid for by Kyle, in which he continues to rant to close friends about the footballer’s absence as a father. And she has a blog where she seeks to reposition herself as a modern mother, often promoting products along with New Age parenting advice.
As a friend explained: “Now he’s trying everything, launching all these other platforms.”
And among the seemingly harmless product recommendations are her usual scathing comments directed at those she believes may have wronged her.
“It wouldn’t be a big surprise if he crossed the line at some point,” the friend added. “She’s just ranting; she doesn’t seem to understand that words have consequences.”
Perhaps his attendance at a parliamentary discussion on child support earlier this month will go some way to changing that.
Meeting Labor MP Peter Kyle to discuss issues relating to the Child Maintenance Service, Lauryn lamented the difficulties of relying on a wealthy former lover to pay her expenses and the alleged lack of support from the authorities.
No wonder friends ask: what’s next? “The year of madness is surely over,” said one. ‘Your New Year’s resolution should be pretty simple. It’s time for me to get a job.
How likely that will be is anyone’s guess.
Last week he partied late into the night at two Mayfair nightclubs popular with top footballers – Bagatelle and the nearby Mistress of Mayfair – where he was among a group of women enjoying drinks bought by Kyle’s partner in England , goalkeeper Jordan Pickford.
Will this leopard ever change its spots?
“She’s only interested in fame and money,” says a source.
“She sticks to the footballers at every opportunity. And this has caused unspeakable pain to many people.”